We Asked AI to Run a City and It Killed Everyone

About this episode

This episode discusses the implications of AI in various sectors, including finance and ethics, while highlighting recent developments in the tech industry.

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise ! In this episode: AI's Money & Power Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8 AI sticker shock hits corporate America AI model simulation: Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Grok vs. Gemini Google hates you AI Agents Take Action Your AI agent can now trade for you on Robinhood Robinhood lets customers use AI to trade stocks, make credit card purchases The Vatican vs. The Algorithm I Read the Pope's 240-Page Encyclical. I'm Astounded by What He Wrote. Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI? Big Business Shakeups Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down after 19 years Introducing Ford Energy Screens, Streams & Self-Driving Spotify is narrating magazine articles now Roku Is Revamping Its Homescreen for the First Time in Over a Decade Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone Weird and Wacky Mark Zuckerberg's mega yacht docks in Seattle in the wake of Meta layoffs F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sanjay Parekh, Adam Walker

Topics covered

• AI
• technology news
• corporate shakeups
• AI agents
• financial technology
• simulation models
• ethics of AI

Keywords

• AI
• Anthropic
• Robinhood
• Pope
• Meta
• Dropbox
• Waymo
• Microsoft
• Gibson Guitar App

Sponsors

TogetherLetters, Edgewise

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Meta, Dropbox, Robinhood, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Waymo, C.I.A., F.B.I.

Products: Opus 4.8, Gibson Guitar App, OpenTools, OpenPrinter

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